http://www.portlandobserver.com QR code for Portland Observer Online Juneteenth Freedom Multicultural Showcase Photo essay from Portland's annual event Good in the Hood celebrates neighborhoods See page 8 Volume XLIV ‘City ö/Roses’ Number 25 See Local News, page 3 b l M | | JÉ í « I www.o Vvww-Po rtland °b server.com flfl H f l 1*1 1 3 wedne Wednesday • June 25. 2014 Established in 1970 Committed to Cultural Diversity Revisiting Alberta Proposed new look at issues comes with racial lens D onovan M. S mith T i n he t P ri)K ortland i l O bserver by U ood, O O' bad, ugly, and beautiful, black îople were very much present on and around Northeast Alberta Street in 1992. Even if the surrounding neighbor hoods were some of the most economically depressed in the city, there were opportuni ties and resources, some hidden in plain sight. Fast forward to 2014, and two Portland educators Mike Grice and Bob Zyback, are looking, to resurrect a student-led study that examined the now heavily gentrified areas around Alberta Street, but with some new considerations for the new millen nium. During the year of the original study, several inner north and northeast Port land neighborhoods were majority black continued on page 4